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Overview

Lesley Hughes is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia, focusing primarily on Environmental Science. Their research encompasses several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics explored in their work include Species Distribution and Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Ecosystem dynamics and resilience, and Zoonotic diseases and public health.

Lesley Hughes has published multiple papers in various scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora, 2021, Scientific Data
  • Small vegetated patches greatly reduce urban surface temperature during a summer heatwave in Adelaide, Australia, 2021, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • The costs and benefits of restoring a continent's terrestrial ecosystems, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • AusTraits - a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

They have collaborated frequently with a range of coauthors, including David M. J. S. Bowman, Rachael V. Gallagher, Tony D. Auld, David B. Lindenmayer, and Rachel Morgain.

Lesley Hughes' publications appear in a number of recurring venues, such as Global Change Biology, Scientific Data, Landscape and Urban Planning, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Journal of Applied Ecology.

In addition to journal publications, Lesley Hughes has contributed to book literature. One known publication is "Indicators of Climate Change," published by Elsevier BV with an anticipated release year of 2025.

Best Publications

  • Extinction risk from climate change

    Chris D. Thomas;Alison Cameron;Rhys E. Green;Rhys E. Green;Michel Bakkenes

  • Biodiversity Conservation: Uncertainty in predictions of extinction risk/Effects of changes in climate and land use/Climate change and extinction risk (reply).

    Chris D. Thomas;Stephen E. Williams;Alison Cameron;Rhys E. Green

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Biological consequences of global warming: is the signal already apparent?

    Lesley Hughes

  • Climate change and Australia: Trends, projections and impacts

    Lesley Hughes

  • Predicting species distributions: use of climatic parameters in BIOCLIM and its impact on predictions of species’ current and future distributions

    Linda J. Beaumont;Lesley Hughes;Michael Poulsen

  • Why is the choice of future climate scenarios for species distribution modelling important

    Linda J. Beaumont;Lesley Hughes;A. J. Pitman

  • Climate change: an Australian guide to the science and potential impacts

    Barrie Pittock;Angela Arthington;Trevor Booth;Peter Cowell

  • Different climatic envelopes among invasive populations may lead to underestimations of current and future biological invasions

    Linda J. Beaumont;Linda J. Beaumont;Rachael V. Gallagher;Wilfried Thuiller;Paul O. Downey

  • Predicting dispersal spectra: A minimal set of hypotheses based on plant attributes

    Lesley Hughes;Michael Dunlop;Kristine French;Michelle R. Leishman

  • Evidence for climatic niche and biome shifts between native and novel ranges in plant species introduced to Australia

    Rachael V. Gallagher;Linda J. Beaumont;Lesley Hughes;Michelle R. Leishman

  • Fate of Seeds Adapted for Dispersal by Ants in Australian Sclerophyll Vegetation

    Lesley Hughes;Mark Westoby

  • Potential changes in the distributions of latitudinally restricted Australian butterfly species in response to climate change

    Linda J. Beaumont;Lesley Hughes

  • Major conservation policy issues for biodiversity in Oceania.

    Richard Kingsford;James Watson;Carolyn Lundquist;Oscar Venter

  • Where will species go? Incorporating new advances in climate modelling into projections of species distributions

    Linda J. Beaumont;A. J. Pitman;Michael Poulsen;Lesley Hughes

  • Phenological Changes in the Southern Hemisphere

    Lynda E. Chambers;Res Altwegg;Christophe Barbraud;Phoebe Barnard

  • Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic

    Dana M. Bergstrom;Dana M. Bergstrom;Barbara C. Wienecke;John van den Hoff;Lesley Hughes

  • Ant-plant interactions

    Andrew Beattie;Lesley Hughes

  • Biological consequences of global warming: is the signal already

    Lesley Hughes

  • Convergence of elaiosomes and insect prey: evidence from ant foraging behaviour and fatty acid composition

    L. Hughes;M. Westoby;E. Jurado

  • EFFECT OF DIASPORE CHARACTERISTICS ON REMOVAL OF SEEDS ADAPTED FOR DISPERSAL BY ANTS

    Lesley Hughes;Mark Westoby

Frequent Co-Authors

Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Michelle R. Leishman
Michelle R. Leishman Macquarie University
Rachael V. Gallagher
Rachael V. Gallagher Macquarie University
Linda J. Beaumont
Linda J. Beaumont Macquarie University
Mark Westoby
Mark Westoby Macquarie University
Eren Turak
Eren Turak Office of Environment and Heritage
Nigel R. Andrew
Nigel R. Andrew University of New England
Roger L. Kitching
Roger L. Kitching Griffith University
David A. Keith
David A. Keith University of New South Wales
David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer Australian National University

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